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[Ohio, Western Reserve]
Rise of JUS* Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the Western Reserve Magazine of Western History. Vol, VI. 1887.
By- A. G. Riddle.
I have been asked many times to account for the rise of the anti-slavery sentiment among the people of the Western Reserve* I answer in a general way that the causes which produced the same sentiment in England, and the northern part of the United States, wrought the results in northern Ohio, '^^his conceded, I am told that the rise in the sentiment- a change from an unanimous pro-slavery, to a nearly unanimous anti-akvery sentiment, was phenonemal in time and extent, in this section of the state, defined "by its* boundary, and effective in changing the relations of political parties in Ohio and largely influencing national results. That whereas "The Reserve" was quite unanimously Whig, it became almost unanimously Free Soil in a year. Single, How is that explained? I reply a known fact of the history of the people of that narrow section, now a thing of their past. The Re¬ serve was for many years seemingly the residence- the home of the variousisms, , the vagaries, mental ailments, many called them, of a people, noted throughout the land for their distinctive feature, so that whoever had a hobby elsewhere rejected, rode

[Ohio, Western Reserve]
Rise of JUS* Anti-Slavery Sentiment in the Western Reserve Magazine of Western History. Vol, VI. 1887.
By- A. G. Riddle.
I have been asked many times to account for the rise of the anti-slavery sentiment among the people of the Western Reserve* I answer in a general way that the causes which produced the same sentiment in England, and the northern part of the United States, wrought the results in northern Ohio, '^^his conceded, I am told that the rise in the sentiment- a change from an unanimous pro-slavery, to a nearly unanimous anti-akvery sentiment, was phenonemal in time and extent, in this section of the state, defined "by its* boundary, and effective in changing the relations of political parties in Ohio and largely influencing national results. That whereas "The Reserve" was quite unanimously Whig, it became almost unanimously Free Soil in a year. Single, How is that explained? I reply a known fact of the history of the people of that narrow section, now a thing of their past. The Re¬ serve was for many years seemingly the residence- the home of the variousisms, , the vagaries, mental ailments, many called them, of a people, noted throughout the land for their distinctive feature, so that whoever had a hobby elsewhere rejected, rode